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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 31 Oct 2009 9:08 am |
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More and more I recieve kindly E-mails from intelligent and courteous Forumites who ultimately get to the point of ALMOST apologizing for being 50-55-60 or above...... and just starting to pursue their facination with the steel guitar....
as an aside they mention that they "are retired".......
Just got to thinking about it. This steel guitar family is so diverse in individual backgrounds or day-jobs, if it hasn't already been done, I'd be interested in learning from what career fields the majority of you have retired from.
Anyone game? I know we have active physicians and astronauts, music teachers, working musicians and the like but how about the rest of you?
Any retired brain surgeons? Any bank robbers? |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 31 Oct 2009 10:32 am
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I've been accountant since 1965. I always wanted to be a professional musician but didn't have the nerve to give up my day job. Alternatively, I wanted to be an engine driver, but they took the steam engines away. Retirement ? In this economy ? Most of us will have to work till we drop.  |
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John P. Phillips
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Folkston, Ga. U.S.A., R.I.P.
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Posted 31 Oct 2009 10:59 am
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Well, I was in radio for about 20 years handling every job from managing to cleaning toilets. Mostly I was a D.J. doing morning drive and some overnights. Before that I was a rent-a-cop with the Pinkerton Agency, obtaining the rank of Sargeant.
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Dom Franco
From:
Beaverton, OR, 97007
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Posted 31 Oct 2009 11:11 am
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I was a full time musician, gigging, and traveling on the road and in and out of recording studios.
I wanted to be able to fix and maintain my amps beyond merely replacing tubes. So I started reading popular electronics, learned how to solder and use a multimeter. Then I took a course in electronics.
The only reason I got into semiconductors was because of music, and solid state amps and effects units. Tubes were replaced by transitors, whole amplifers were replaced by integrated circuits, analog gave way to digital...
So to make a long story short. I now work for Intel in the most advanced, high tech clean room in the world. We are making the newest, fastest, most powerful processors ever conceived - and I am totaly bored.
It pays very well but I'd rather be playing music.
I do so whenever I can...
Dom 
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2009 11:31 am
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I retired after 35 years with the Fire Service. 25 with Bakersfield City Fire, 2 with Kern County Fire and prior to that 7 with the Federal Fire Service out at Edwards Airforce Base.  |
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Roy McKinney
From:
Ontario, OR
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Posted 31 Oct 2009 11:34 am
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| 33 years with the Navy as a civilian tech working combat weapons systems. |
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Ned McIntosh
From:
New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 31 Oct 2009 11:41 am
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Retired from the merchant marine in 1992, now semi-retired from the television engineering industry (still do the occasional satellite uplink) and these days I run a flying school.
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The steel guitar is a hard mistress. She will obsess you, bemuse and bewitch you. She will dash your hopes on what seems to be whim, only to tease you into renewing the relationship once more so she can do it to you all over again...and yet, if you somehow manage to touch her in that certain magic way, she will yield up a sound which has so much soul, raw emotion and heartfelt depth to it that she will pierce you to the very core of your being. |
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John Lemieux
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 31 Oct 2009 11:43 am
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Iretired in 2004 after working for 36 years as a shift electrician in a pulp and paper mill.I really enjoyed my job and the steel guitar is a retirement project along with a few others.Dom i got a good laugh at you being bored with that high tech. stuff.
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Lee Holeman
From:
San Benito, Texas, USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2009 11:46 am No Apologies
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4 yrs Navy, 2 yrs College (also tried the music scene), 4 yrs Air Force, 25 yrs Corporate Jet Pilot (played music on weekends), retired 21 yrs, now playing 4-5 nites a week, AT 76+!
Lee Holeman |
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